A heavy-machine-gun fire exchange between government-controlled Opytne and Donetsk airport, controlled by the militants

"At 15:40hrs the SMM heard multiple bursts of small-arms and light-weapons fire 3-4km north-north-west of its position. Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian Federation Armed Forces officers at the JCCC told the SMM that this had been a heavy-machine-gun fire exchange between a military base in government-controlled Opytne (12km north-west of Donetsk) and “DPR”-controlled Donetsk airport (8km north-west of Donetsk)," according to the report od OSCE Special Monitoring Mission.

The observers also state that "between 9:40 and 14:14hrs, the SMM heard a total of six explosions 3-4km north-north-west of its position as well as multiple bursts of small-arms fire 3-5km west, north-north-east and north-north-west of its position".

In a residential area in government-controlled Peredilske, Luhansk region, the SMM observed three unexploded ordnances (UXOs) – rockets of a BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) (220mm) stuck in the ground and assessed them to have been fired from an easterly direction. The OSCE monitors also noted that some UXOs were located in gardens and near houses in densely populated area.